[ros-dev] Using git for all ros source as main revision control

[King InuYasha]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:13:47 -0500
> Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This was discussed amongst the developers.  A fair portion objected,
> > and rather strongly at that.  I happen to be one of them.  Its
> > "performance" is oversold and its support for Windows remains a
> > problem point.  And with the new branching features in SVN, the one
> > advantage git does hold that's worth anything to us may well be
> > disappearing.
>
> Have you guys taken a look at Bazaar?
>
> Granted moving to it (or any other DVCS) would likely require that the
> repository be split so that reactos, rosapps, etc., are all in their
> own shared repositories, but I think that this is better than pulling
> everything all at once anyway.  You can pull subsets with Subversion,
> but it's still a pain to mirror that way.
>
> The big players ATM in DVCS are git and Bazaar, though.  (And hg,
> mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is also written in Python and so it
> is just as portable as Bazaar is, though I don't know of terribly many
> projects using it).  If you switched to bzr, you'd get the nice
> advantage of making it easy for Launchpad to mirror the repositories,
> and making it easier for people who already use Launchpad and bzr for
> hosting to contribute.  Just a thought.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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Aside from Launchpad, not many people actually like using Bazaar because it
has the worst performance of the three by far. So far, people have
recommended like so:

Git - need to be extremely tech savvy, willing to work mostly if not only in
POSIX-based systems, worst documentation of the three
Mercurial - more complete docs, so easier to learn, cross-platform, has good
performance with mix of C and Python
Bazaar - extremely cross platform, very slow compared to Mercurial and Git,
sparsely documented, or out of date documentation, slightly strange in
syntax, recommended for very small projects where performance won't matter
too much.

That was the advice I got when I was figuring out a DVCS to use for the
Enano CMS Project. Based on that, it was rather easy to throw out Git and
Bazaar.
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